Grandcamp, Evening
1885
Georges-Pierre Seurat
Medium
Oil on canvas
Original Title
Grandcamp, un soir
Provenance
Estate of John Hay Whitney
Style
Pointillism/Neo-Impressionism
Viewing Notes
"Some say they
see poetry in my paintings," Seurat once wrote. "I see only science."
Dissatisfied with the technique of the Impressionists, which he
considered spontaneous and unmethodical, Seurat turned to color theory
and optics to develop his own method of painting, which he called
Divisionism. Instead of mixing colors together on his palette, he
applied individual, unmixed paints to the canvas, leaving the viewer's
eye to mix the colors optically.
This painting is one in a series of seascapes that Seurat painted in the French coastal village of Grandcamp during the summer of 1885. Short horizontal brushstrokes fill the sky and sea, whereas the land is composed of dots of color. Seurat added the painted border later to complement the colors on the canvas and intensify its luminosity.
This painting is one in a series of seascapes that Seurat painted in the French coastal village of Grandcamp during the summer of 1885. Short horizontal brushstrokes fill the sky and sea, whereas the land is composed of dots of color. Seurat added the painted border later to complement the colors on the canvas and intensify its luminosity.
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